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175 years of Bertelsmann
175 years of Bertelsmann
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Under the motto "175 years of Bertelsmann - the legacy for our future", a web-based multimedia chronicle was created in 2010, providing access (in some instances for the first time ever) to a great number of texts, images, audio and film records from the Bertelsmann archives. Navigation solutions were found which matched the diversity of the media company. The chronicle could be accessed via a floating, freely rotating cube, whose sides each represented one era of the company's history. A timeline showing the milestones in virtual media stations provided the basis for a virtual trip through 175 years of Bertelsmann. The corporate history was linked with the experiences of customers and the public through the opportunity to interactively contribute personal memories and share them with other users.
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The Webby Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in the internet and multimedia industry. The awards have been presented every year since 1996. Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary organisation that has 750 members worldwide, among them many well-known names including film director Darren Aronofsky, Huffington Post Media Group president Arianna Huffington, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, rock legend David Bowie, internet "co-founder" Vint Cerf, chairman of the Virgin Group Richard Branson and R/GA president and CEO Bob Greenberg. To do justice to the outstanding quality of this year's entries, official honours were introduced in 2011 on the initiative of the Academy, which, besides the nominations and prizes, are awarded to the best of the 10,000 entries worldwide. The criteria for these honours are, like the awards themselves, content, structure and navigation, visual design, functionality, interactivity and the overall user experience. checkpointmedia received the accolade "Official Honoree of the 15th Annual Webby Awards" in the Corporate Communications category for the website commemorating the 175th anniversary of Bertelsmann. Under the banner "175 years of Bertelsmann - the legacy for our future" checkpointmedia created a multimedia chronicle that uses an innovative navigation system to provide numerous texts, images, sound and film documents from the extensive Bertelsmann company archives, some of which have not been previously released. Access to the chronicle is by means of a floating cube that can be turned at will. Each of the cube's sides represents one era of the company's history. The virtual journey through the various eras takes place along a time bar that contains milestones of the company history. Visitors to the site can travel back and forth through time at will and can, at many points along the timeline, contribute their own personal memories, experiences and impressions and share them with other users. The numerous filters and opportunities for further exploration combine to produce a user-friendly and dynamic journey through 175 years of company history.
